Rami Haidar, poetry and proverbs
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Rami Haidar, distinguished citizen of Parma, is a particular character: specialized doctor in Anesthesia and Intensive Care, of Lebanese origin, he has been living in Italy since 1977. He is son of a poet and writes himself poems in Italian; in collaboration with linguistics experts, he is translating in Italian his father’s poems and is
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Paul Strand from New York to Luzzara: a journey in black and white
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
No one, now, would dream of challenging the role of photography in visual arts. Analog or digital, it is cultural heritage of museums and galleries; it is protagonist of exhibitions and trade fairs, biennials and festivals. But there was a time when photography was not considered art: its realization through a mechanical mean and a
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Curiosity e-book: weird!
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
This time I propose some of the classics of mystery, with two e-books in Italian and two in English language. Presente a un’impiccagione e altre storie di fantasmi (Present at hanging and other stories of ghosts) is the title that Tanja Sartori offers to ebookgratis.net readers in her unpublished Italian translation. It is a collection
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Parallel lives: Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
It all began in the Chiostrino dei Voti dell’Annunziata in Florence. There, between 1513 and 1514, two painters about twenty years old were assigned to the creation of two frescos: the Visitation to Pontormo, the Assumption to Rosso Fiorentino. The exhibition “Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino. Divergent ways in the “manner” opens with these two paintings,
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Design in 400 words: OTTAVIO the forgetful
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
In case you need a design object to be inserted in the children room I would like to introduce to you “OTTAVIO Lo Smemorato” (OTTAVIO the forgetful), prototype on display at SHARING DESIGN, container of events in Fabbrica del Vapore organized by Milano Makers at the last Salone del Mobile. OTTAVIO is a “rare” kind
Acqui Terme, illustrators in Festival
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
The Cultural Association Campo di Carte, in collaboration with Libreria Cibrario, is ready for the third edition of Anomali Illustration Festival. Unlike the previous editions, the festival will take place in Spring, from April 27th to May 4th. By the end of April is expected the end of the project Righe Amiche, which involved the
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A Pixel with mustache
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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Walking books in bibliobus
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
Man is a hunter, a discoverer, a seeker by nature. He’s always been searching for what he needed to evolve, adapt, feel good. And also to learn, to have fun, to know. On one hand, the hunter, on the other the prey, the object of pursuit, desire, sometimes. The book. Entity that lives on the
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The bibliophile’s handbook
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
Compendiary, writing – Type of writing that, in order to save time and space, uses a conventional system of abbreviations but without prejudging to the interpretation and meaning of the text. Continue, writing – Type of writing in which the words are not interspersed with spaces. The division of words appears in the mirror of
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A museum for the industrial Bologna
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
In fine weather, it’s nice to get there by walking along the Navile Canal, used for transporting goods until the second post-war. It is the Furnace Galotti “Battiferro”, built in 1887 and from 1997 charming home of Museum of Industrial Heritage of Bologna, which documents, displays and spread economic and productive history of the city
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